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YOUTH AND SKILLS Putting education to work. Pauline Rose Cairo, Egypt April 2013 @ efareport / # YouthSkillsWork. Key messages: EFA Global Monitoring Report 2012. Progress towards Education for All is stagnating Aid to education is slowing down - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
YOUTH AND SKILLSPutting education to work
Pauline RoseCairo, Egypt
April 2013
@efareport / #YouthSkillsWork
Key messages: EFA Global Monitoring Report 2012
Progress towards Education for All is stagnating
Aid to education is slowing down
Slow progress has left a huge skills deficit among young people
Poor urban and rural youth, especially women, urgently need support to acquire skills
Number of out-of-school children of primary school age, 1999–2010
Progress towards UPE has ground to a halt
Source: UIS database
Youth and skills
Pathways to skills
One in four young people is in a job being paid less than $1.25 per dayOne in five young people
in the Arab States countries has not completed primary school
One in six of the world’s people is aged between 15-24-years-old
One in two in the Arab States are under 25 years old
One in eight young people is unemployed
Pathways to skills
Technical and vocational skills
Transferable skills Foundation Skills
Pathways to skills
A primary and lower secondary education gives young people foundation skills.
Young people learn transferable skills and technical and vocational at upper secondary school.
Pathways to skills
Work-based training teaches transferable and technical and vocational skills through direct work experience.
200 million young people need a second chance.
Pathways to skills
Poverty is a barrier to young people acquiring foundation skills
Not completed lower secondary school, 15 to 24 year olds, by wealth
Source: World Inequality Database on Education: www.education-inequalities.org
In Yemen, 9 in 10 poor, rural young women do not acquire foundation skills
Source: World Inequality Database on Education: www.education-inequalities.org
Yement: Not completed lower secondary school, 15 to 24 year olds, by wealth, location and gender
In Jordan, many young women are not even seeking work
Source: Understanding Children’s Work (2012).
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Percentage of 15- to 24- year olds classified as ‘inactive’ by gender and education level in Jordan
• Make secondary school relevant to work• Egypt adaptation of German dual system• Injaz Al-Arab career guidance programme
Providing skills through secondary
schooling
• Support unemployed youth via training funds• Tunisia training fund
• Combine basic skills with employability training• Jóvenes programmes in Latin America
Targeting unemployed
youth
•Make foundation skills part of entrepreneurial skills training,combined with assets•Questscope in Jordan•Tackle discrimination•Ishraq programme in Egypt
Putting education to work
Ensure linkages between the education system and employers
Scale up programmes to reach the large numbers of unemployed
Make sure programmes target the most disadvantaged, including those working in poverty
3 overarching lessons
And finally… listen to the voices of young people
Although I haven’t completed my education I need a chance. We want to work and give something good to the country.
Young woman, Egypt
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